New York alliance offers guidance and support to Russian researchers who are seeking employment in their adopted country |
And there are many, many more stories of unemployment and underemployment among ‚migr‚ scientists from the Soviet Union, despite a widely predicted shortage of scientists in the U.S. in the coming decades. U.S. refugee-aid groups estimate that approximately 40,000 Soviet ‚migr‚s will arrive in the U.S. this year, 30 percent of whom are scientists or engineers with some R&D experience. Because Jews are one of the few ethnic groups permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union, most of these scientists are Jewish. Before leaving the U.S.S.R., some of them--known as "re-fuseniks"--spent years awaiting permission from the Soviet authorities to emigrate (The Scientist, Feb. 19, 1990, page 5).
Like Bolonkin and Karabach, many of the ‚migr‚s are finding that education and experience alone are not enough to land jobs. Insufficient knowledge of English ...
